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​Online Issue 1  

“Façade” by Sophia Nicolosi
About the artist
A Note From the Editor on the Inaugural Online Issue

When the editorial staff and I were first identifying themes for our print and online issues, we didn’t realize we were also building our language—a way for you to read us. We didn’t realize that when we separated works into print and online, we were making decisions not only about theme, but also about urgency— about what we believed needed to be ever-present in our digital, always on, always free, always available format; we didn’t realize that the language collection we were curating from submissions was not only of words and images, but that which when placed together presented a collection that spilled outside prescribed lines, in disquieting and exhilarating form and content, re-forming language…
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​January 2019

​Our inaugural print issue features  work by
 Rae Armantrout, Philip Metres, Eric Baus, George Kalamaras, Kathy Fish, Ben Miller, Eleanor Swanson,  Francine Conley, J. E. Crum, Jill Khoury, Meg Reynolds,  Sam Hayward, Emmy Newman, Jeanine Pfeiffer, Savanna Scott Leslie, Lauren Elle DeGaine, Douglas Macdonald, Arman Kazemi, Martina Reisz Newberry, Gabrielle Lessans, Khadijah Queen, Andrea Rexilius, and Jesica Carson Davis.

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Philip Metres
​The Palestinian Refugee’s Powerpoint ​
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Adrianne Kalfopoulou
Left behind
    for a Square Space

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Ben Miller
​Chapter 3 from it all melts down to this ​
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J. I. Kleinberg
​There was some superlative ​

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Kathryn Winograd
Slow Arrow
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William C. Crawford
Jimmy Pro Found Inspiration
​At A Now Defunct El Paso Watering Hole

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​Jill Khoury
​Washing my face before bed, mother’s day 2018
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​Jill Khoury
Litany for Survival

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George Kalamaras
What is Torn from Gloria Fuertes’ Stomach
​Each Day as We Work to Fill It
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J.I. Kleinberg
​Swimming

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Eleanor Swanson
​Literary Maps
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Eleanor Swanson
Watching the Water​

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Gavin Yates
Seadragon Eucalypts
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Gavin Yates
l’eau your voice

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John Sibley Williams
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Say we’re descended ​
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John Sibley Williams
The birds begin to rust

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Marian Kaplun Shapiro
Internet Search
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Khadijah Queen
Double Windlass

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Jesica Carson Davis
​State of Change
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Andrea Rexilius
The Sentence

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Arthur Solway
Postcards
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Philip Metres
 Visit Palestine
 (Weird Apparition)
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